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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 2026, 4:49 PM EDT for Bullitt County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 2026, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2026, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Bullitt County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 349 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 637 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Madison | 34 min |
| Sep 18, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson | 51 min |
| Sep 18, 4:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Sep 18, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bullitt | 48 min |
| Sep 18, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Oldham | 42 min |
| Sep 18, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Shelby | 38 min |
| Sep 18, 7:56 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | LMK | Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson and 11 more | 48 hr |
| Sep 18, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Scott | 39 min |
| Sep 18, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Orange | 38 min |
| Sep 18, 6:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Orange, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Crawford | 46 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.